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  1. Re:dwarfs = dwarves on Apple The Current Fastest Growing Brand · · Score: 3, Informative

    dwarves = plural of dwarf
    dwarfs = verb form of dwarf "to dwarf" -> to make look small

    HTH

  2. Re:Not an Office competitor. on Apple Making a Spreadsheet? · · Score: 1

    So what sort of award do you get for gratuitous use of the word inchoate

  3. Re:Beautiful on Could Apple's Intel Desktop Threaten Linux? · · Score: 1

    Sounds a lot like CoreData

  4. Re:1980 on Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Shut up

  5. Re:Presumably... on Linux Kernel Gets Fully Automated Test · · Score: 1

    I thought it was more like

    The first 90% takes 90% of the time.

    The last 10% takes the other 90%

    but I may be optimistic

  6. Re:1,2,3 and "the acting" on Roger Ebert Answers Star Wars Questions · · Score: 1

    Err, that would be Sir Alec Guinness, the only member of the cast who was a name actor before Star Wars. He was knighted because of his acting so you'd sort of expect him to be pretty good...

  7. Re:Old News on Samsung Announces Flash-Based Disk Drive · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could fit it into a 19" rack if you folded it in half first

  8. Re:Chemically... on Liquid Metal Cooling in New ATI Video Card · · Score: 1

    Yeah but is "not particularly toxic" actually the same as safe?

  9. Re:Jaguar on Microsoft Developing Windows for Low-End Machines · · Score: 1

    Do you have any details on that?

  10. Re:Gilbert and Sullivan! on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 1

    It's called assonance

    And no, it's doesn't mean sounding like an ass

  11. Re:But... on Going Beyond Fermat's Last Theorem · · Score: 1

    Slighly less than enough apparently

  12. Re:An IP Lawyers empirical defence of patents on IBM Calls for Patent Reform · · Score: 1

    This from somebody with an in Korea line in their sig

  13. Re:What apple should do next... on What's Next At Apple · · Score: 1

    Actually I think due to the free trade agreement that our IP laws are now harmonized with the US of A

    Which probably means "brought into line with" - I get the feeling there's a lot of take and not much give here

  14. Re:The rise (again) of console gaming... on Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Dammit that should be audio support

    Stupid brain. Previewing didn't help none

  15. Re:The rise (again) of console gaming... on Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005 · · Score: 1

    What is missing from the Mac Internet software lineup to hold it down to the level of "respectable"

    Well I'd have to say that the complete lack of webcam support in yahoo messenger and msn kinda sucks

    That's what my wife complains about the most anyhoo

  16. Re:Style over function? on Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target · · Score: 1

    Yes, I've just installed some and it's definitely much snappier...

  17. Re:Australia aren't always the good guys on Australia-U.S. Trade Agreement Takes First Strike · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. I mean we're doing our level best to ream East Timor over the oil under the Timor Straight. Survival of the biggest and nastiest I guess

  18. Re:UK and Australia on Australia-U.S. Trade Agreement Takes First Strike · · Score: 1

    Actually I believe we are referred to as the West Island

  19. Re:Analize this on AI Bots Pick The Hits of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Brings tears to your eyes?

  20. Re:Buzzwords... on Scalable Enterprise Buzzword Solutions · · Score: 1

    [1]Do not eat In Soviet Russia, all your base are imagining an ad-hoc beowulf cluster of old korean overlords welcoming YOU!

  21. Re:Performance Limits on Chemical Computation on DNA For Information Processing and Data Storage · · Score: 1

    So is there a discount for all your base?

  22. Re:Slashdot Hive Mind: Emergence! on Emergence · · Score: 1

    I can't believe you forgot 'All Your Base'

  23. Re:What about ambidextrous? on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · · Score: 1

    >I'm in MENSA.

    But your username is 'smacktits'...

    yeah, right

  24. Re:Windows 2003 popularity? on Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume that because the software is old it's no longer good? It's not going to wear out you know. Unless it's lacking something you need it'll keep doing the job just as well as it does now.

  25. Re:Yes, but will this be enough? on Bluetooth Gets Faster & Requires Less Power · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if everyone likes the actual bluetooth stuff and they keep producing and selling more of it, why is everyone busy using words like 'failing' to describe it?

    Because it didn't take over the world a week after it was announced. People are just impatient.